Buffet restaurants - SC's without any manners

[chainedbarista]

morons like those mentioned in other replies are why i no longer go to buffet style restaurants, i don't want to risk getting god knows what from something that could have been contaminated by an idiot who can't comprehend what a serving spoon is for.

those two women remind me of a homeless guy who was given a free meal by a takeaway restaurant next to where i used to work; he complained about the buddha statues being 'an affront to jesus and all christians' to the very people giving him a handout.

[tamezin]

1. the same people go up there time and again with a plate with their uneaten salad dressing, or uneaten lettuce still on it.
2. Or, I've seen times where you don't want to eat what you just saw someone else touch with their nasty bare hands.
3. a guy one time who took a helping of bourbon chicken, grabbed a few pieces with his hands, put the pieces in his mouth, licked his fingers, then put the serving spoon back with the hand he just licked! Yuck!
4. a group of loud teenagers with two grown ups came in, raising hell with everyone around
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I think you nailed nearly every reason I will not go to a buffet.....can anyone say food poisoning?

[Seshat]

Sometimes you don't even need a plate!

Depending on the exact restaurant, that's true.

A nice clean banana leaf will do fine.
Or a waffle bowl. Or a bread bowl. Or .. well, you get the gist.


But yeah, there's a big difference between this sort of non-crockery crockery, and using the serving utensils as eating utensils!

[tropicsgoddess]

I don't know what it is about buffet restaurants, but I've noticed over half of the patrons that eat there have no manners whatsoever. Places like The Golden Corral have signs that mention "We have a clean plate policy", yet you see some of the same people go up there time and again with a plate with their uneaten salad dressing, or uneaten lettuce still on it.

I never heard of such a policy there (then I guess they didn't have it at the particular Golden Corral I went to), but I didn't leave much clean plates there since the food sucked.

[MoxisPilot]

I don't know if I'm just as rude as these people, or if my brain-to-mouth filter just doesn't function, but if I ever saw a guy do the finger-lickin' dip while I'm waiting for food in a buffet, I'd be loudly calling for the server behind the sneeze guard.

Loud enough for the disgusting guy to hear, in fact. "SIR? Sorry to bother you, but that twat over there just [insert disgusting action]. Can you replace this [insert molested article]? I don't want to catch whatever diseases he may have."

[excuse me??]

this reply in not intended in any way intended to be disrespectful to anyone who has a few extra pounds on them... I was enjoying fine lunch at an all-you-can-eat Chineese Buffett and noticed a really big fellow (requiring 2 chairs). I'm not sure how much he ate, but could easly see him eating the equivalant of 4 meals, which could be an economic strain on the business if he ate there 4 or 5 days a week.

[Lace Neil Singer]

My main annoyance with buffets is with the greedy pigs who go up to the buffet and clean out all of one type of food so that no-one else can have some. Especially if they don't eat it all, but leave half of it. I once was at a buffet where this incredibly obese woman grabbed all the BBQ chicken legs; there must have been about ten there, and she hogged the lot. The staff did replace them, and if it wasn't for this brave man who stood in front of the woman to stop her queue jumping, she probably would have taken the lot of the new serving, too. -.-

[LillFilly]

Oh, I have one.

I had just gotten my favorite item from the buffet and had moved-on when I saw a small child go to the items. He was too short for the sneeze guard to do anything and he had his face right over the tray, looking at it and coughing the whole time. Nice, deep hacking coughs. Luckily, the servers saw and took that tray away!

The parents were at a table right next to the buffet, and did nothing. If their child was sick, I think they should have gotten the food for him.

[katie kaboom]

My main annoyance with buffets is with the greedy pigs who go up to the buffet and clean out all of one type of food so that no-one else can have some.

It's like that at the buffet i go to, only they take all the crab legs. I mean, these people pile their plates so high it's a wonder they don't spill them all before they get back to their table. Talk about greedy.

[Toujin]

This thread reminded me of an old Simpsons epsiode, where Homer took the 'all-you-can-eat' part literally. And judging by the stories I've read here, it sounds like some real people take this literally, too. I'm wondering what people with such impulse control problems are doing at a buffet in the first place.

I have nothing against buffets myself, though. As long as the stuff is clean, and the food good, I'll be happy to eat at one.

[Kiwi]

There is only one buffet I will go to, the serving area is set too high for anyone under 10, they have signs (that they enforce shock, gasp!) that adults must collect food for children under 10, they have excellent sneeze gards that come out really far and they have one staff member on each station.

My family goes there ALL the time! Its in NZ though so I cant go anymore....

[Bella_Vixen]

Loud enough for the disgusting guy to hear, in fact. "SIR? Sorry to bother you, but that twat over there just [insert disgusting action]. Can you replace this [insert molested article]? I don't want to catch whatever diseases he may have."

I personally would amend that to "I don't want his DNA anywhere near my food." But that's just me.

[greensinestro]

I love these stories. I should also point out something I was reading a while back about the Sizzler. They rarely have them anymore in Florida, except for two around the Disney World areas. Years ago, they were everywhere, but business was hurt by people mentioned in this thread. If I recall, it was when they came out with the cheap all you can eat salad bar for $4.95. The intention was you could add this to your meal for the extra charge. Instead, people took advantage of this, opting only for the all you can eatr salad bar and not ordering an entree or anything else. This is why now, if you eat somewhere like Golden Corral or even a Sizzler, it's somewhere from $9 to $15 per person, depending on which restaurant it is. These places have to jack up their prices to cover the losses incurred by pigs and greedy people like what's been mentioned.

Sometimes I wonder how our food supply isn't at an all time low when you think about the cruise ship industry. I've been on several cruises and literally anywhere you go, there's food buffets everywhere. And yes, you have people like this as well who load up. Hell, there are many who spend the whole cruise doing nothing but eating at those places.

[edible_hat]

Sometimes I wonder how our food supply isn't at an all time low when you think about the cruise ship industry. I've been on several cruises and literally anywhere you go, there's food buffets everywhere. And yes, you have people like this as well who load up. Hell, there are many who spend the whole cruise doing nothing but eating at those places.

At Movie World, the Casablana themed attraction is "Rick's Cafe Americain" which is an all you can eat buffet. I guess people actually do pay $70 to get into a theme park just so they can pay $25 to sit in a restaurant all day stuffing their faces.

[MrSmiley]

A co-worker of mine was just telling me about a asian/sushi buffet place he goes to in town. All you can eat, but they further stipulate that anything you put on your plate and DON'T eat you will be charged for (it may even be a single fee like $1.50 or something). As a result, people wrap up any items they don't want to eat in napkins and dump them out-of-sight in the bathroom's garbage can. He mentioned that it was overflowing every time he's gone in there and that he often does it himself to dodge the fee.